Start Process Smart Service Asynchronosity

RE: Start Process Smart Service Asynchronosity

jraaquino — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 07:55:00 GMT

Hi @Hema,

I just viewed the actual documentation of the Start Process Smart Service and saw the line you were talking about.

However, it looks like there's an inconsistency in Appian's documentation which caused the confusion.

From this article Ways to Start a Process:

Also from the same documentation above, it mentions that the activity-chaining is not followed for the Start Process Smart Service.

While from this article Start Process Smart Service:

Hope they clear up the documentation.

Thanks!

RE: Start Process Smart Service Asynchronosity

Hema — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 07:32:22 GMT

Hi jraquino,

The smart service is behaving as expected. After activity-chaining gets completed, then, the process flow in the main process model continues.

Please find below the exact line taken from the documentation,
The new process is started asynchronously, and the process flow of the current process continues immediately after all activity-chaining completes.

Thanks,
Hema

RE: Start Process Smart Service Asynchronosity

ravalik — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 07:17:52 GMT

Hi jraquino,

The behavior of the node depends on the permissions of the user running the smart service. The following table details the result of running the smart service given different permission levels.

Initiator: The process is started, but only the process instance ID (processInfo.pp.id) is populated in the process info variable. All other process info values will be null.

Thanks,
ravalik